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Trichonema punicuM. Blush 



Trichonema. 



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Generic Characler. — Fid, No. 1225. 

 Specific CbaraBer and Synonyms. 



TRICHONEMA pttdicttm ; (adhnc modb fori Jam cattle toto e 

 terra fgrejfo ;) foliis lanceolato-linearibus, 

 utrinque tricoftato-bifulcis, fummis duobus 

 involucrato-oppofitis, altero majori deorfum 

 ventr icofo- vagi nam e.quampedunculi dicho- 

 tomo-gemini longiori, altero breviflimo 

 convoluto-bracteaetormi, (nunc paulo infra 

 dichot&miam ponitnr pedunculus alius Jimi'is 

 fimiiibus flipatus folii* ;) fpatha corolla 

 2 — 3-pl° breviori ; corolla ex inferne fub- 

 campanulato-convergente recurvatim pa- 

 tente ; laciniis obovato-lanceolatis, fub- 

 aequalibus ; tubo fere obfoleto ; filamentis 

 antheras fubsequantibus, juxta fupra bafiti 

 denfiori villorum flocculo barbatis ; ftig- 

 matum latiinulis fimbriatulis, revolutim di- 

 varicantibus, antheras parum excedenti- 

 bus. G. 



TRICHONEMA pudicum. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. 1. 223. 

 Supra No. 1225. pag. alt. in [pec. enum. 



I XI A pudica, Soland. Herb. Bank/. 



Contrary to the more general habit of the genus, the entire 

 ftem in this ipecies is protruded from the ground, while the 

 plant is as yet only in a flowering ftate ; in moft others, the 

 ftem-like peduncles alone appear during that period ; the real 

 ftem, as in Crocus, emerging gradually while the fruit ripens. 

 Leaves 3 — 4 ; flowers 2 — 3, fcentlefs ; flein 3 — 4 inches high. 

 Not recorded in any general fyftem of vegetables ; and moft 

 probably now firft known in our European gardens. Brought 

 from the Cape of Good Hope by Mifs Symonds, filler to the 

 late Lady Gwyllim, and given by her to MefTrs. Whitley 

 and Brame, in whofe greenhoufe at Brompton it flowered laft 

 Auguft. G. 



